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Too Good For Too Long
Shutterstock Too Good For Too Long Over-extended systems contract quickly & violently I’m writing this from my home in Sonoma County at the end of an intense week of witnessing firsthand the devastation caused by the many current fires burning in northern California. While it’s hard to focus on anything other than the moment-to-moment developments […]
Catalonia Chaos Begins to Squeeze Spain’s Financial Markets
Catalonia Chaos Begins to Squeeze Spain’s Financial Markets Bank shares plunge. Money is already on the move. Spain’s biggest political crisis of a generation, which has led to the complete breakdown of communication and understanding between its government in Madrid and the separatist region of Catalonia, is finally beginning to take its toll on the […]
Will The Fed Really “Normalize” Its Balance Sheet?
Will The Fed Really “Normalize” Its Balance Sheet? To begin with, how exactly does one define “normalize” in reference to the Fed’s balance sheet? The Fed predictably held off raising rates again today. However, it said that beginning in October it would no longer re-invest proceeds from its Treasury and mortgage holdings and let the […]
Van Halen, M&Ms, And The Next Market Downturn
Van Halen, M&Ms, And The Next Market Downturn How watching the right indicators will avoid disaster The planet-sized egos of rock & roll performers are legendary. Few things symbolize this better than the outrageous requests they often make when on tour. These requests are referred to as “riders”, and appear in the contract a tour […]
Where There’s Smoke…
Where There’s Smoke… …There’s central bank manipulation Central banks around the world have colluded, if not conspired, to elevate and prop up financial asset prices. Here we’ll present the data and evidence that they’ve not only done so, but gone too far. When wee discuss elevated financial asset prices we really are talking about everything. […]
Why This Market Needs To Crash
bofotolux/Shutterstock Why This Market Needs To Crash And likely will Like an old vinyl record with a well-worn groove, the needle skipping merrily back to the same track over and over again, we repeat: Today’s markets are dangerously overpriced. Being market fundamentalists who don’t believe it’s possible to simply print prosperity out of thin air, we’ve […]
Hell To Pay
SkillUp/Shutterstock Hell To Pay The final condition for a market crash is falling into place Sometimes I wonder if I’m ever going to run out of new things to say about the economy. Nothing interesting has happened in a long time. Our liquidity-drunk “markets” remain over-priced due to the chronic intervention of the global central […]
2008 All Over Again
2008 All Over Again Financial markets in the United States and worldwide face uncertainty and potential crisis after Britain voted to leave the European Union. (Sparkx 11) Great Britain’s decision to leave the European Union has wiped out many bankers and global speculators. They will turn, as they did in 2008, to governments to rescue them […]
Why Government Cannot Create Inflation
QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, I have listened to the gold propaganda and believed in it initially but with time they always say the same thing and nothing happens. One would think that this helicopter money should have produced inflation. This effort has failed as Japan and Europe keep moving negative punishing people for not spending. Now it […]
Doug Casey Warns: “It’s The Next Stage Of The Greater Depression… The Economy Is Going To Be Very, Very Bad”
Doug Casey Warns: “It’s The Next Stage Of The Greater Depression… The Economy Is Going To Be Very, Very Bad” While President Obama took credit this weekend for saving the world economy from a global depression and stock markets are hovering around all-time highs, not everyone is convinced that central bank policy and government involvement in […]
Interest Rates and Gold
INTEREST RATES AND GOLD It is commonly assumed that the gold price and interest rates move in opposite directions. In other words, a tendency towards higher interest rates is accompanied by a lower gold price. Like all assumptions about prices, sometimes it is true and sometimes not. The market today is all about synthetic gold, […]
A Scam Called Valeant——Why The Casino Is Going To Blow
A Scam Called Valeant——Why The Casino Is Going To Blow If you need evidence that Wall Street is a financial time bomb waiting for ignition look no further than the recent meltdown of Valeant Pharmaceuticals (VRX). In round terms, its market cap of $90 billion on August 5th has suddenly become the embodiment of that proverbial sucking sound […]
Here Comes The Red Swan And Other Reasons To Be Very Afraid
Here Comes The Red Swan And Other Reasons To Be Very Afraid The Red Chip casino took another one of its patented 6.5% belly flops last night. In fact, more than 1,300 stocks in Shanghai and Shenzhen fell by 10%—the maximum drop permitted by regulators in one day—–implying that the real decline was far deeper. This renewed carnage was the […]
The Future is Blivets
The Future is Blivets If you have been paying attention, you may have noticed that the global financial markets are currently in meltdown mode. Apparently, the world has hit diminishing returns on making stuff. There is simply too much of everything, be it oil wells, container ships, skyscrapers, cars or houses. Because of this, the […]
Fedpocalypse Now?
Fedpocalypse Now? “Here’s another fine mess you’ve gotten me into….” — Oliver Hardy If ever such a thing was, the stage is set this Monday and Tuesday for a rush to the exits in financial markets as the world prepares for the US central bank to take one baby step out of the corner it’s […]
